Low-contrast lesion detection in tomosynthetic breast imaging using a realistic breast phantom

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6142 III, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Zhou, Lili ^a   Oldan, Jorge ^b   Fisher, Paul ^b   Gindi, Gene ^a,b  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backprojection reconstruction; EM reconstruction; Human observer test; Mammography; SART; Tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS;

BACKPROJECTION RECONSTRUCTION; EM RECONSTRUCTION; HUMAN OBSERVER TEST; SART; TOMOSYNTHESIS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33745430674     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.652343     Document Type: Conference Paper

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